Gun control, Founding Fathers

The Second Amendment made perfect for the time when people owned simple muskets, which at the time were the state-of-the-art military weapon and standard issue to the British military.

Some Americans had even more advanced weapons, muzzleloaders ? which had a rifled barrel for greater accuracy.

At that time, those weapons were far more advanced than the clubs, spears and bows and arrows used 200 years prior to that.

With that in mind, I am not advocating relaxing current laws on gun control.

More laws and restrictions are not the solution for failure to enforce the existing ones. We already have appropriate restrictions prohibiting true assault rifles, machine guns, heavy weapons, explosive devices and weapons of mass destruction.

As all of the perpetrators of horrendous and tragic mass shootings have been mentally-ill or unstable, and none of them have been responsible, law-abiding citizens, the obvious solution is to address the mental health care deficiencies in our society.

We need to develop a society of personal responsibility regarding firearms and stop demonizing and name-calling of law-abiding citizens.

Our country's founding fathers won our freedom; now it is up to us to keep it.